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Firearm background checks were up nearly 50 percent in October and early November over the same time last year as people besieged gun stores for weapons and ammo. Some were terrified the new administration was gunning for ...

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“Assault weapons are only made to kill people”. REALLY? Does Obama think bolt rifles,single shots, and pistols were invented for killing animals only? Please, that is just an uninformed comment by a person who knows little or nothing about firearms. There are MILLIONS of legally owned Assault rifles in America used for hunting every kind of wild game. But of course if a person has finished grade school they know the 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting, it’s about firearm ownership. Citizens have a much higher % of being killed by a knife or bat, I don’t hear Obama calling for a “common sense” safety ban on them. One more time for those who don’t “GET IT”. It’s about banning future gun/ammo purchases, not kicking in doors and taking our guns next year. People like Obama want to kill our 2ndA right by a thousand cuts. And that begins with useless “common sense” laws like AW bans. Hitler,Stalin,Pot, and violent criminals all agree, gun control works great! If people hate their 2ndA right that much they should move to a country that doesn’t protect that right with a Constitution. Viva La 2ndA!!!

The gun business is too cyclical. Unfortunately, all these sales will only serve to dry up sales in the future. After all, how many military-style self-loading carbines does a person need?

If you don’t like the current run on guns, blame the Brady Campaign for bragging that the new administration will permit “common sense” gun control. (Gun owners are aware that there has never been a gun control restriction the Brady Campaign has opposed as being counter to “common sense.”)

Blame the Democratic Party for having renewal of the “AW” ban and repeal of the Tiarht (sp?) law in their platform.

And stop insinuating that there’s somehow something illicit about a gun designed only for killing people. Why do you think police and Secret Service agents carry guns? We have just as much right to kill people in self-defense as they do.

While we’re pointing out uninformed comments, I thought I should respond to the claim that “Citizens have a much higher % of being killed by a knife or bat”. The following statement is straight from the CDC website regarding the number of deaths due to injury from 1999-2005. Notice that knives and bats are not mentioned anywhere:
“In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time in 2004. In 2004, poisoning deaths exceeded those related to firearms by 2%; however, the difference increased to 7% in 2005, with 32,691 poisoning deaths compared with 30,694 firearm deaths. Motor vehicle traffic (MVT) deaths were the leading cause of injury death from 1999-2005, accounting for 43,667 deaths in 2005. From 2004 to 2005, MVT deaths increased 1%, firearm deaths, 4% and poisoning deaths, 8%.”
The fact of the matter is, for at least the 40 years prior to 2004, the two leading causes of injury death were MVT deaths and firearms.
It’s worth getting your facts straight before posting your thoughts on a widely read website.

I don’t trust the CDC that much either. The heads of that group want to make gun ownership a health issue just like the product safety comission wants to take gun ownership under their wing.

We can’t trust any bureaucrats, demoncrats or republicrats.

In the first year of the ObamaNation, guns and ammo will be made more expensive and harder to buy. In the second, we’ll get the AWB back and more. In the third, we get the Republicans back, just like 1994.

Gun ownership is an important right handed down to us by our forefathers who fought very hard to give us the type of country we have. Unfortunately, we are letting our country slip away to being 3rd rate and letting other countries take the lead. That is another story. I believe all Americans, who are not criminals, deserve the right to own a gun. If that right is taken away, the only Americans who have guns will be the criminals.

While I am not paranoid about “race wars” or bands of violent neighbors attacking me, I feel safer knowing I can protect my family if I have to. Besides, if “bands” of violent neighbors were attacking, unless I had a huge arsenal, I doubt I could fight them off anyway.

We need to stop giving away all of our freedoms in this country. Obama has said he won’t take guns away. We should trust that he is telling the truth. Otherwise, we do as our forefathers did and revolt. We have that right also under the Declaration of Independence…